Priming morphologically complex verbs by sentence contexts: Effects of semantic transparency and ambiguity

摘要: Semantic priming of morphologically complex Dutch verbs was investigated in two cross-modal experiments. Spoken sentences served as primes to visual target words, presented for lexical decision. Targets were either simple (e.g., brengen, bring) or particle verbs, consisting a verb plus separable prefix meebrengen, bring along). Particle semantically transparent opaque. Transparent are related their constituent along), opaque not ombrengen, exterminate). In Experiment 1, facilitation consistently obtained when targets congruent with the content sentence primes. But also found incongruent conditions, constructed prime meaning embedded verbs. Post-hoc analyses and data from 2, however, showed that this due ambiguous nature some verb...